A Field of Tents and Waving Colours: Neville Cardus writing on Cricket

by Neville Cardus, edited by Gideon Haigh

Duncan Hamilton's biography of Neville Cardus, The Great Romantic, became a bestseller in 2019 even before it won the William Hill. But to really appreciate why he was the greatest cricket writer of all you need a companion one-volume collection of his best work. This A Field of Tents and Waving Colours perfectly provides. Acclaimed in hardback, and now available in paperback at the height of the summer, here is a book for every lover of fine writing on the Summer Game. Here is Cardus on Bradman, Trumper, Compton and Benaud, at Roses matches and seeing the Australians defeated at Eastbourne - and of course at Lord's.

Paperback

Published March 18, 2021

About the author

Sir John Frederick Neville Cardus CBE (3 April 1888 – 28 February 1975) was an English writer and critic, best known for his writing on music and cricket. For many years, he wrote for The Manchester Guardian. He was untrained in music, and his style of criticism was subjective, romantic and personal, in contrast with his critical contemporary Ernest Newman. Before becoming a cricket writer, he had been a cricket coach at a boys' school. His writing about the game was innovative, turning what had previously been in general a purely factual form into vivid description and criticism.

Reviews

[Chris · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wonderful collection of articles on cricket by the master of cricket writers, Neville Cardus. I've always maintained that some of the finest writing in the english language is on the game of cricket. This book goes a long way to proving my contention. And the book is edited by Australia's finest writer on cricket, Gideon Haig.